Canyon Lake’s Soccer teams started their district play last Tuesday and found that a Greyhound is fast in dribbling a soccer ball, in their loss to Boerne.

Junior Mike Thorpe scored his 10th Goal of the season in loss to Boerne

The Hawk Boys team did put a minor scare in Boerne as they scored their first goal when Mike Thorpe was near the goal for a put back with about 11 minutes left on the first half clock.

“We came out fresh and ready to play,” Thorpe scored first. “We were countering their attack and they could not hit the target.”

That goal for Thorpe was his 10th for this season which has to be a big change for this Junior that was on a team that scored just three goals for the season during his Freshman campaign and six goals last year.

Now Thorpe has scored more goals than the Hawk team had in his first two years of competition.

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Hawk Basketball has become a hard game to finish this year as the Lady Hawks will need to sweep their last two opponents if Cuero does not lose in their last two contests. If the Hawks can take care of business with La Vernia next Tuesday, then that too would keep the playoff door open for Canyon Lake.

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Cuero has the two bottom teams in the standings and their could be an upset but CL will also need to take care of business in Wimberley to give them a chance to tie Cuero and have a play in game.

For the Hawk Boy’s team, a sweep would be the best way of describing their way of playing into the post season.

That will be a tough order since many of the remaining teams are on the higher echelon of the district standings at this writing.

The Lady Hawks had a lead for much of their game with Cuero but just ran into a dry spell that continued long enough to seal the deal for their loss.

Kyndall Drum was a human vacuum cleaner on the glass as this young lady finished with a double-double scoring 13 points and pulling down 17 rebounds in the game.

That rebound total was right at a half of the total rebounds for Canyon Lake and Drum scored one third of the points.

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Canyon Lake’s best kept secret is having some great success swimming under the water as this year’s edition had their best showing ever at the District 28-5A Swimming and Diving Championships last weekend in San Antonio.

Head Swimming Coach Lee Willing

The Boy’s Team placed Second overall out of eight teams needing just 12 points to reach the coveted first rung on the ladder.

CLHS Girl’s Swim team placed Fourth at the Meet, which was their highest finish to date.

Senior Cam Stone placed First in the 50 Freestyle and Third in the 100 Freestyle while Sophomore Phoenix Duarte placed Third in the 500 Freestyle.

The Boy’s 200 Freestyle Relay placed Second and 400 Freestyle Relay Placed Third at the event, adding those relay points to their total.

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Hawks taking instructions for battle

Canyon Lake had a tough night in Navarro on Friday night as both Girls and Boys could not get a much needed win against the Panthers.

The girls game had a return of that nemesis called turnovers, as the Lady Hawks committed 31of those dastardly happenings.

Navarro is the front runner in the District 26-4A race and beating this club was going to be a big hurdle to clear for this young Hawk club.

With this loss, CL is perched in the fourth and final spot in making the playoffs as Cuero, (Canyon Lake’s next opponent) suffered a loss to La Vernia and which are two teams the Hawks still have on their schedule.

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Canyon Lake won a must win game with Gonzales, 58-39, on Tuesday night to keep their playoff hopes alive.

Sean Nolan pitched in with 14 points and 10 rebounds in win over Apaches Picture taken from Gonzales Paper

“We are not used to being in a position where we are a favorite in a game,” Head Coach Lucas Chapman said. “We did what we wanted to do to get this win.”

Three Hawk’s finished with double digit scoring in the game with the Apaches, Sean Nolan led the trio with 14 points with Garrett Winters and Brandon Ward each chipping in 11 points a piece.

CL is in a position where wins are a must as the second round of district contests have started.

A reduced amount of turnovers will certainly help as that element of the game will need to be a cornerstone on how this season will play out.

“We need to eliminate those unforced turnovers,” Coach Chapman commented. “That helps keep us up on a motivational standpoint, if we can keep the turnovers down for four quarters.”

Defense was also on display in the game with Gonzales as players like Senior Skyler Tschoepe led the team with four steals and countless hustle plays.

Tschoepe finished with 7 points but his other points were scored with 4 assists, 6 rebounds, and a blocked shot for a solid game effort.

Junior Brandon Ward’s defense turned into offense in win over Gonzales

Brandon Ward also had a good all-around game with a nice shooting touch and also finishing with 3 assists.

This next round of games will be how a team can adjust their game after seeing each opponent for the second time.

“We learn who their best players are and have a better scouting report,” Junior Ward said. “That allows us to go over specific things to close down that scorer.”

On playing a better game of defense, “You get pumped up with defense and when you can turn a good stop into points then that will come from our focus and helping it lead to offense.”

Canyon Lake will need to reenact another game like the one played with the Apaches when the Hawks face Navarro this Friday because another win can be the only solution for giving this team a chance to advance.

Go Hawks!!!

             1   2   3   4   Final
 Gonzales   11   7   8  13   39
 CL Hawks   15  11  13  19   58

                            3pt           tot rebounds
 name             fgm-fga fgm-fga ftm-fta pts or-dr tot a  s  b  to
 Garrett Winters    3-7     2-6     3-4   11   1-1   2  3  0  0  2
 Brandon Ward       5-9     1-2     0-0   11   0-1   1  3  0  0  2
 Justin Ferris      0-2     0-1     0-0    0   0-1   1  1  0  0  1
 Rory Preiss        2-5     0-0     2-2    6   3-7  10  0  1  0  0
 Skyler Tschoepe    3-9     0-3     1-2    7   2-4   6  4  4  1  2
 Nic Adams          1-3     0-1     0-1    2   0-3   3  0  0  0  1
 Branton Kindla     0-0     0-0     0-0    0   0-0   0  0  0  0  0
 Will Gray          1-5     0-1     1-2    3   3-2   5  0  1  0  4
 Tyler Williams     1-2     0-0     1-3    3   3-4   7  0  1  0  1
 Scott Taylor       0-4     0-2     1-2    1   0-2   2  2  0  0  2
 Sean Nolan         6-8     0-0     2-6   14   5-5  10  1  2  5  1
 totals            22-54    3-16   11-22  58  17-30 47 14  9  6 16
 percentage         41%      19%    50%

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Canyon Lake completed their sweep of Gonzales as the Junior Varsity and Freshman teams were both successful.

The Junior Varsity was in control from the first quarter when they scored 17 points while holding the Apaches to a meager 3 points.

Thomas and Wilkins both finished with double digit scoring with 17 and 15 points respectfully.

CL defense did not allow any chance for a Gonzales comeback while the good guys won three of the four quarters and going into that final stanza leading 23 points.

The Hawk Freshman also won their game but had a tougher first quarter as both teams were tied at 7 all.

Both teams scored 37 points combined in the second quarter but the Hawks reached 21 points and in rarefied air.

Boyd (13) and Cole (11) finished in double digit scoring with McDonough (9) just one point from that mark.

A third quarter 10 point cushion helped Canyon Lake coast into the fourth quarter for another Hawk win over Gonzales.

Go Hawks!!

 JV Boys     1   2   3   4   Final
 Gonzales    3   6   8  12   29
 CL Hawks   17  12  11  11   51
 Scorers: Thomas 17, Wilkins 15, McDonough 6, Malden 4,
 Ramirez 4, Brownlee 3, McIntosh 2

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 Fresh Boys  1   2   3   4   Final
 Gonzales    7  16   5  10   38
 CL Hawks    7  21  15   5   48
 Scorers: Boyd 13, Cole 11, McDonough 9, Rollins 5
 Harwell 5, Jordan 3, Navarro 2

Canyon Lake’s Soccer team is on the brink of setting some records that has been a long time in coming.

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Canyon Lake scored their most goals in a game with their victory (7) as 6 goals were scored in the Hawks win back in 2009-10 season over Bloomington in the Victoria St. Joseph Tournament.

Those 7 goals were also the same number of goals Canyon Lake had all of last season. (13 games)

With this win, CL also tied their longest win streak with at two with this victory.

Mike Thorpe was on this night scoring four goals with two assists to boot and was joined by James Alexander, Grayson Rohrbacher, and Julian DeLaPaz.

Thorpe was also joined with three other Hawk’s on assist, Rohrbacher, Jordan Schzech, and Juan Guzman.

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CL Hawks won their double header with Smithville as both Girls and Boys scored victories before the start of District 28-4A play next week.

Head Soccer Coach Ryan Tierney

Canyon Lake has not had this type of excitement on the Soccer field with two teams since the school started and with another win in the books, both teams look poised to have success when the real season in District 28-4A, get going.

The Lady Hawks, now have 14 players that have scored a goal or assist this season as six different girls got in the scoring books in their 8 goal tally with Smithville.

CL had a chance to go over several parts of the game as Head Coach Ryan Tierney commented, “Our main focus of improvement is movement off the ball.”

Christy Fowler led CL again on Tuesday when she pulled off another Texas Hat Trick in scoring four goals for the third game in a row.

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 Standings District 26-4A Lady Basketball
 Team          W    L    Pct.
 Navarro       7    1   .875
 Wimberley     6    2   .750
 CL Hawks      5    3   .625
 La Vernia     5    4   .556
 Cuero         4    4   .500
 Yoakum        1    7   .125
 Gonzales      0    9   .000

 Tuesday Scores
 CL Hawks    40    Gonzales    25
 Navarro     60    La Vernia   49
 Wimberley   65    Cuero       32

 Friday Games
 CL Hawks     @    Navarro
 La Vernia    @    Cuero
 Yoakum       @    Gonzales

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Canyon Lake Lady Hawks won their must win game in overtime against Yoakum last Friday night, 45-41.

Sarah Schneider scores 14 points in win over Yoakum to keep the Hawks in the thick of their District 26-4A race.

The Hawks were missing in action in those first two quarters as Yoakum had successfully put a lid on the rim, keeping Canyon Lake with a dismal first half of shooting.

“Good win, but it hurt going 3 for 31 from the floor early,” Head Coach Mary Beth Gallagher stated. “I was proud of the girls effort early but felt we did not have the edge defensively we needed.”

That certainly played out in the second quarter as the Bulldogs outscored CL eight points going into halftime having a double digit lead, 23-12.

Yoakum forgot to take the lid off that same rim CL played in the first half and held the Bulldogs to 4 points in the third quarter allowing Canyon Lake to take a three point lead going into the fourth quarter of play.

“At half, we switched to a 2-3 zone defense hoping to throw them off their game and it definitely worked for the third quarter allowing us to claw back in,” Coach Gallagher surmised.

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CL Hawks Basketball Backs are against the wall after a loss to Yoakum on Friday night, 63-58.

Canyon Lake shot well from the floor but too many turnovers did not allow this Hawk team to have more shots in committing those costly miscues.

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CL did have three players get to double digit scoring in the game as Junior Brandon Ward led the trio with 14 points while Seniors Skyler Tschoepe and Garrett Winters finished with 12 and 11 points.

A good overall game from Sophomore Rory Preiss as he missed just one shot, with an assist and 4 steals for Canyon Lake.

Preiss also led the Hawks with 8 rebounds and has accumulated 122 for the season only needing 29 more this season to crack the top ten rebounders for the Hawks.

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